| a_s1576_10_c83-104 | Interview with Fred Williams | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Local history
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Turpentine industry and trade
Turpentining
Agriculture
Farm life
Family farming
Great Depression
New Deal, 1933-1939
Musical tradition, sacred
Shape note singing
World War, 1939-1945
Broom making
Farmer
Broom makers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Fred Williams
- Date
- 1983-04-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C83-104: Williams, born in Sneads, Florida, in 1923, discusses being raised in a rural farming family in Jackson County, Florida; joining the Army and using his disabled veterans' pension to start his own farm; the character of his family; life during the "Hoover Days" of the Depression; the Wesleyan Church creating a sense of civic community; farming under President Roosevelt's government policies; serving in the military and being injured in Europe during World War Two; being disabled; family sayings; and sacred harp singing in northern Alabama. In addition, he also talks about hog killing, smoking meat, mule plowing and other routines on the farm. C83-105: Williams talks about making homemade brooms; giving homemade brooms and bonnets to the elderly; the proliferation of modern technology; physical and mental challenges involved in farming; attending church revivals and going fishing in the summertime; training mules; and serenadings, weddings, and cane grindings. In addition, he remarks upon black quartet singing, his marriage, his political career and political outlook, and his religious views, including his outlook on the bible, Israel, and his favorable regard for Jews.
- Collection
| a_s1576_10_c83-102 | Interview with Lloyd Earl McMullian, Sr. | Sound | Turpentiners
Farmer
Fieldwork
Interviews
Local history
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Turpentine industry and trade
Turpentining
Agriculture
Farm life
Family farming
Great Depression
Tractors
Mules | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Lloyd Earl McMullian, Sr.
- Date
- 1983-04-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C83-102: Macmillan discussed how Two Egg, Florida, and Paramour, Florida, were named; his birth in Grand Ridge, Florida, in 1910; his and his father's work in turpentining; getting into the farming business after the turpentining industry's decline; farming with mules and, later, with tractors in the 1930s; raising peanuts, soy beans, and corn; his son's work in cattle farming; blacksmithing; canning and preserving food; and magic and omens in farming. He also tell stories about voting Republican due to promises of racial equality and talks about "Hoover Days" and the Depression; old farming sayings and practices; and making moonshine from cane skimmings. C83-103: McMullian discusses visiting the Florida Folk Festival; collecting antique engines as a hobby; the turpentining process; tally calls and tally boards; "raking" trees; enjoying his work in the turpentine industry; bank loans; and trains and business transportation. In addition, he tells a story about the first toilet he ever saw and talks about losing crops in droughts and from nematodes; his father's employment in a large farm; fiddle and piano music and dances; Sacred Harp music; African-Americans; square dancing and clogging; serenades, housewarmings, and quilting parties; and farming in cold weather.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-223 | Interview with Myakka City resident Lois Payne | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Community culture
Turpentine industry workers
African Americans
African Americans Segregation
Timber
Turpentining
Marriage rites
Churches
Religion
Railroads
Family history
Local history
Church services
Leisure | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City resident Lois Payne
- Date
- 1984-06-19
- Description
- One reel to reel. Payne talks about life in Myakka, including turpenting, segregation, marriage practices, timber industry, leisure activities, the Ku Klux Klan, games, churches, and trains. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
| a_s1714_04_tape44 | Interview with turpentiner Anders Woodard | Sound | Fieldwork
Sound recording
Interviewing
Interviews
Life histories
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Occupational groups
Turpentine
Turpentine industry workers
Turpentining
Hunting
Turpentiners
Hunters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with turpentiner Anders Woodard
- Date
- 1985-02-18
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with raccoon trapper, farmer, and former tupentiner Anders Woodard. He discusses his history as a raccoon trapper; farmer; turpentiner; process of gathering the gum for turpentine; early life in Tallahassee, making syrup; use of turpentine spirits and rosin; trapping, skinning, cleaning and selling raccoon hides; training dogs for hunting; deer, alligator and bear hunting; and working during the depression. In winter 1985, the Bureau contracted with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the 'St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area' at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| a_s1576_01_c77-027 | Interview with turpentiner Harry Cooper | Sound | Interviews
Turpentine
Turpentining
Turpentine industry workers
Turpentine industry and trade
Pine
Occupational groups
Labor
African Americans
Turpentiners | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with turpentiner Harry Cooper
- Date
- 1977-07-11
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Cooper discusses his turpentining methods past and present and discusses turpentining terms. Recorded at the Stephen Foster Center.
- Collection
| a_s1576_11_c84-003 | Interview with William Ralph (Buddy) Maddox | Sound | Fieldwork
Occupational groups
Interviews
Turpentining
Farm life
Farming
Maritime folklore
Maritime life
Oral histories
Blacksmithing
Fishing
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with William Ralph (Buddy) Maddox
- Date
- 1984-01-17
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side A Buddy Maddox discusses his early history; sharecropping; Turpentine camps in Clarksville and Merrysville; moving to different places; different odd jobs he did such as running a ferry, commercial fishing, road work and railroad work and turpentine; blacksmithing - especially maritime; more odd jobs; making nets; building his own blacksmith shop and converting from coal to gas. Side B Discusses a man who makes wooden boats in Blountstown; changes in fishing in Panama City over the years; fears over the changes; Mr. Bob Raffield and superstitions on boats.
- Collection
| 024941 | J.A. Phifer's three-deck still permitting gravity feed of rosin | | Turpentine
Distillation apparatus | /fpc/forestry/024941.gif |
| RC21001 | J.B. Faircloth, woods rider with payroll, and a turpentine worker on the wagon | | Men
African American turpentine industry workers
Horse-drawn vehicles
Turpentine industry and trade | /fpc/reference/rc21001.gif |
| 024945 | J.T. Miller's government plan still | | Turpentine
Distillation apparatus | /fpc/forestry/024945.gif |
| 024965 | J.T. Miller's government plan still supervised by Florida Forest Service | | Turpentine
Distillation apparatus | /fpc/forestry/024965.gif |
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